This June 19, 2012 photo shows Gillian Fllynn, author of "Gone Girl" in Chicago. Flynn's third novel, "Gone Girl," is the perfect beach read - boy meets girls, boy marries girl, girl goes missing on their fifth wedding anniversary. "Gone Girl" has been selling for summer, entering the New York Times bestseller hardcover fiction list at No. 2 for the week of June 24 and earning a top-ten spot on Amazon's Top 100 list.

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Gillian Flynn's third novel, "Gone Girl," is the perfect beach read — boy meets girl, boy marries girl, girl goes missing on their fifth wedding anniversary. The boy is Nick, who grew up in a Mississippi River town in Missouri.